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	'<{title}>' => 'A hike in rent',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/04/12.jpg" alt="Down by the stream" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="rent">
	<h2>Rising rent costs</h2>
	<p>
		Checking the mail from yesterday this morning, I found a letter from my property manager.
		Great.
		What&apos;s gone wrong now?
		I really don&apos;t need any more garbage at the moment.
		What could I possibly have done wrong?
		I think I&apos;m a good tenant.
		I&apos;m quiet, I don&apos;t make trouble, I&apos;ve never once paid my rent late, and I usually even pay <strong>*about two week early*</strong>.
		It turns out it&apos;s just another rent increase they&apos;re notifying me of though.
		The idiots in my state voted on a plan to periodically raise minimum wage for a while, and these increases are currently the main driver of inflation in the area.
		Rent&apos;s going to keep going up periodically to compensate.
		The bad news is that the money I&apos;ve already saved up is depreciating.
		But I already knew that.
		The good news is that the increases in rent are only countering increases in my pay cheques, so I can definitely handle the new price of living indoors.
		It used to cost me about half what I make every month to live here when I first moved in, and it still does.
		So there&apos;s no more bad news to deal with, just a reminder of bad news I was already aware of.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			One can easily see how the three-tier approach lends itself better to use on the Web than the two-tier approach.
			In the two-tier approach, the client has the application code locally.
			That means that they need to install a separate client application for each system they interact with.
			What a pain!
			It reminds me a lot of all those companies that try to get you to install their mobile applications instead of just using their website, although mobile applications probably also use the three-tier approach in most if not all cases.
			Why would anyone want to install and run all those untrustworthy applications - many of which spy on you and report back to the company they run for - for each company though?
			As for actual two-tier database application, it&apos;s still a bit of a pain to install a bunch of clients locally.
		</p>
		<p>
			You mention the two-tier database applications being better for one or two users at a time though.
			Could you elaborate?
			In what way would a two-tier system be advantageous for one or two users?
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="camera">
	<h2>Camera date issues</h2>
	<p>
		I think I set my camera to the wrong date a couple days ago.
		It seems the dates on my photos from yesterday and the day before are off again.
		This is getting really old.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="Summer">
	<h2>Summer</h2>
	<p>
		Summer came over tonight to use my shower.
		She came over two days ago too for the same reason, and at first, I thought she was finally not avoiding me any more, now that I&apos;ve no interest in seeing her anyway.
		Like, um, it&apos;s a little too late for that.
		You should have stopped avoiding me <strong>*before*</strong> I realised that our relationship isn&apos;t likely salvageable.
		After some thinking though, it dawned on me that she didn&apos;t think I&apos;d be here.
		I was only here tonight because I was skipping my $a[EUGLUG] meeting.
		As for two days ago, I usually work Tuesday nights.
		She probably thought I&apos;d be gone then, too.
	</p>
	<p>
		Anyway, one of the ways she tries to play is she&apos;ll pick at you for no good reason whatsoever.
		Of course, if you do the same to her, she takes it as an attack and gets angry.
		Normally, I just sit back and take it, but not tonight, and I ended up snapping at her.
		She got weird and quiet after that.
		Then she just went to take her shower.
		I talked with Vanessa as Summer showered, and it seems Summer knows she and I aren&apos;t on good terms any more.
		I don&apos;t think she has any idea the extent we&apos;re not on good terms, as there&apos;s not really a way for her to see until certain types of events come up.
		And even then, it&apos;ll be easy for her to blow off the signs until they keep happening for a while, which will take time.
		Someday though, she&apos;ll realise she&apos;s lost me.
		I doubt it&apos;ll change her behaviour in any meaningful way, but she&apos;ll be forced to face facts at some point.
	</p>
</section>
END
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